Quotes From The Separate Peace

“The Separate Peace” Essay and Analysis During the fall break I read the book called “The Separate Peace”, and in this essay I want to focus on the theme friendship. This thee is really important to me, because you need friendship in life cause when you are down they can pick you right back up. Then when you’re thinking to highly of yourself they can make you stop getting so cocky, and they are like a brother or sister to us. This book focuses on a friendship between two sixteen-year-old boys, and there friendship has a combination of admiration, respect, jealousy, and resentment. Plus, this friendship is driven by a nice healthy dosage of competition. Oh, and I forgot to tell you their names which is Phineas and Gene. Some of my opinions I have on their friendship is …show more content…
Another opinion of mine is that World War Two made there friendship stronger, and yes the time in this book was during World War Two. In this book there is a good bit of instances of Finny and Gene’s friendship. Here is a quote I found interesting in the first paragraph and I’ll give a lot more quotes too, “What was
I doing up here anyway? Why did I let Finny talk me into stupid things like this? Was he getting some kind of hold over me?” What I thought about this quote was that the notion of equality is very important to Gene and his friendship with Finny. Another quote in the first paragraph was
“It’s you pal, Finny said to me at last, just you and me. He and I started back across the fields, preceding the others like two seigneurs. We were the best of friends at that moment”. My thoughts about this quote was that from the start, Gene’s friendship with Finny isolates them from others. Another quote in the first paragraph, which I found a good bit of friendship quotes I found in the first paragraph “I threw my hip against his, catching him by surprise, and he was instantly down, definitely pleased. This was why he liked me so much. When I jumped on top